Marijuana
.... and use of marijuana. Marijuana has many
nicknames, including grass, pot, and weed. It is also called cannabis, a
word that comes from Cannabis sativa, the scientific name for hemp.
Effects
Marijuana contains more than 400 chemicals. When smoked, it
produces over 2,000 chemical that enter the body through the lungs. These
chemicals have a variety of immediate, short-term effects. In addition,
the repeated use of marijuana has been linked to a number of long-term
effects short- Term Effects of .....
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Why Gun Control Is Needed
.... of violence are carrying around guns that can shoot
180 rounds per minute, bullets that can pierce metal, and all at an
extremely high velocity! Gun control is needed to protect us from chaos!
Did our framers intend for these kinds of weapons to be sold to
anyone via the Internet or mail order catalog? After reading the
information that Mrs. McCall gave to me, I see that a majority of guns, in
use today, have one purpose and that is offensive military type tactics.
Could our framers imagine 10-13 .....
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Capital Punishment: Why Or Why Not?
.... it justice that she was not put to death for
killing her two children? How could someone possibly let her off the hook
of such a crime?
"All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on
the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association.
Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment
order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears," says,
Joseph de Maistre, an eighteenth century French Diplomat. He is right, if
we give up on .....
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Heroin: The Most Dangerous Drug
.... for money to support their habit
and does little to care for themselves, which could be prevented if heroin
was legal because it would be far cheaper. Lastly, AIDS is aconsequence of
sharing dirty needles, as is hepatitis and tetanus, which could also be
prevented through legalization and availability of sterile equipment. One
of the reasons heroin is considered both a very dangerous drug and perhaps
the hardest drug is the fact that the line between efective dose and the
lethal dose is so thin. A .....
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The Stalking Of Celebrities
.... means living in fear.5 There is an estimated 200,00 stalkers
in the United States. Seventeen percent of the stalker's victims are
celebrities.6
“Stalking of celebrities is not done by your average autograph
hound.7 The stalking behavior due to delusional disorders affects 3 out of
every 10,000 people and only 1%-2% of all mental patients,” Dietz says. “
But it is increasing as our culture promotes celebrities as the religion of
the day.”8
“The knowing of the habits and secrets of celebrities .....
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Capital Punishment: Against
.... If a human being were to take another
human being's life then the aggressor would have to go on trial that would
let him be judged by a group of his peers. Upon the verdict of guilt in
taking the other human being's life the group of peers will now have to
decide that person's fate or future. These people deciding the aggressor's
future do not have the right to take the aggressor's life for it is
unrealistic to justify one murder with another murder just for the sake of
an eye for an eye.
The i .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
.... of an ounce or less of marijuana became minor
and was punished by a maximum fine of $100.00. Opposing sides argued that
reduced penalties would result in greater public acceptance of marijuana.
That would mean that there would be an increase in the amount of people
who would be caught and punished for possessing marijuana. ( Sommer, 67 ).
The annual survey of freshman, which has been sponsored by
American Counsel on Education since 1966, includes an item relating to the
legislation of marijuana. A .....
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Something Happened! - The Sexual Harassment Suit Of The Nancy Hart And The
.... exam by the Criminal Justice Council
5. Agree not to smoke on the job or off duty while employed by the
city
6. Agree to random drug testing
7. Agree to keep their weight in proportion to their height
A violation of any the above conditions would be grounds for
dismissal from the Police Department without the right of Union protection.
After the six new Police Officers graduated from the Police Academy,
they were assigned to various shifts. The .....
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The Drinking Age: Legal Age Should Be 18
.... the consequences that will follow. If the age of majority
were to be lowered to eighteen, taxpayers' money could be saved to use on
something more valuable. In addition, teenagers would not feel as though
they were being controlled.
In addition to saving money, studies show that alcohol is easily
obtained and most eighteen-year-olds who do so drink sensibly. A ten-year-
old study found that youngsters who experiment moderately are better-
adjusted than youngsters who are completely abstin .....
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The Need For Stricter Gun Laws
.... Liberties Union
(ACLU), Congress has had a tough time passing any legislation that would
benefit the public and curtail the sail and manufacture of armor piercing
bullets, automatic rifles and Uzis. Unfortunately, we tend to interpret
the Constitution to broadly. Obviously, in the late 1700's, there were no
deadly weapons to contend with. They had muskets, which could hardly be
used in a very swift and deadly manner. Granted, the musket could kill,
but if you asked any semi-sensible person if they .....
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Death Penalty In The United States
.... message that violence is a suitable way to
resolve conflicts. Death penalty opponents also condemn the death penalty
because of the possibility of an innocent person being put to death, and
because it can be unfairly applied.
Death penalty opponents feel that the death penalty must be
abolished because it cheapens the value of human life. The death penalty
desensitizes people to murder and violence because, by executing people,
the state sends the message that violence is an acceptable means of
resolving .....
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Gender Effects On Criminal Sentencing
.... research shows that the system falls short of this.
Nagel and Weitzman (1972) summarized research by various
investigators. When data was compiled on criminal cases, a clear
discrimination was found in favor of women. It was found that women were
awarded lesser sentences than their male counterparts for the same crimes;
these differences were found for both larceny and felony cases. The
leniency given to women was found to be similar to that of minors, both
male and female. Nagel and Weitzman offer .....
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The Brady Law
.... case was brought up by sheriffs in Montana and Arizona who
said that running background checks would take valuable time away from
other law-enforcement duties. This is a valid argument in less densely
populated areas of the country where doing checks would bring manpower to a
below minimum level. This argument is not valid for large cities, however,
because it is needed more there than anywhere else in the country. In
large cities there are many more police officers and they can afford to put
a few on .....
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Drug Abuse: People Abused Vs. Drugs Abused
.... it.
Eventually, some type of physical or mental harm occurs within that
person's body, thus, the occurrence of changes in health is the result of
one's free choice. Any of the above stages can be easily applied into
mother-child scenario.
If a mother becomes, at some point, totally drug addicted, she can
no longer control her actions, psychological stage of mind, etc. She can
no longer be in a position of making the right choices and decisions, and
of course, she will not be in a position to recognize .....
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Why The Penal Laws Failed
.... and
three years as several desperate attempts to abolish the Catholics from
Ireland. The first penal law was implemented into the Irish community on
December 24, 1691 when William and Mary made an Anti Catholic declaration
for the oath of supremacy. The oath banned all Catholics from becoming
members of the parliament or any other position of power. Catholics could
not practice law, run for office, purchase land or own land, vote, enter
any profession, hold arms, guard a child or educated his/her ch .....
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